Oh wow -- Victory Junction Gang is the official charity of NASCAR... so maybe that chocolate-ness is supposed to be mud, from a dirt track after it has rained, splashing behind a tire of the winner who is doing burnouts in the swampy chocolatey mud.... um... maybe

wv:(my first attempt) culta - Cake wrecks readers are in a culta all their own :)

If I'm right, and I'm never wrong, Gilder (the sworn enemy of Florren and all things cakey) is responsible for these wrecks. I'd stake my life on it. And "sheet cake" that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...anybody want a peanut?

Pretty much every cake on here has made me laugh (or groan) but the last sheet cake made me say, ever so quickly, "What the f*** is that?" No exclamation. Just pure confusion. I love the Princess Bride. I totally heard "incontheevable" in my head.

Frazzled baker running around bakery: "Sheet cake... Sheet cake... She wanted a sheet cake- Now what did she mean by that?" (Lightbulb flashing on top of head) "Oh, I know! I'll grab some bed sheets and cover them in chocolate! GENIUS!!!"

Loving the Princess Bride commentary! That and the talented surfing hotdog although I'm not sure if I'm more impressed/frigthened by the concept of a surfing hotdog or of a flowing poo wave. . . . something to ponder. . .

I am laughing just as hard at the comments as at the cakes, err wrecks. Princess Bride is one of my all time favorite movies, and the commenters are all spot on with their witty references. Here is my paltry attempt:

(In the distance a loud heart rending scream)"What is that?""That is the sound of ultimate suffering.""But who would have cause, Wesley rescued Buttercup and you got revenge?""Did you not see the 'sheet cake'?"

Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Wreckorator when cake is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...(unveils the "sheet cake" and falls over dead)

OK...I'm seriously flabbergasted. WHO would desecrate a cheesecake in such a manner? To me, cheesecake is the King of Cakes (especially when it's of the chocolate variety). I could eat cheesecake for breakfast, lunch, supper, snack and brush my teeth with it...however, the whole campfire theme has me stumped. The poo waves have rendered me speechless. WTH??? Hotdog and burgers with flecks of mold. Gross!! And why did they not have the flames in the upright position? Limp flames...I must go and quietly weep now.

In defense of the cheezburgercake, I don't think those are mold spots on the hot dogs. Rather, they look to me more like scuffed-crud-from-sliding-around-in-a-drawer-for-years-without-being-used spots.

Do you know what that sound is, your highness? Those are the shrieking eels. They always get louder when they are about to feast on this, ugh, weird caramel cheesecake with hot dogs and hamburgers decorating it. Really, buttercup, get out of the water and help me figure out what this decorator was thinking.

i bet the person who wanted their melting chocolate taj mahal was mighty pissed to get a sheet cake.

For the record, I think it's awesome that Amy chose to put the Victory Junction logo on her cake. I'm a twenty year veteran of the Hole In the Wall in Connecticut and my heart always smiles when I see another HITW camp represented (especially on a wedding rehearsal cake!)

I forgot to wish you happy birthday yesterday. Checked in, but work was too busy to read the comments and add my own.

But I discovered your wonderful blog on the day you posted the Olympic Rings cake, and have been snorting religiously ever since.

I turned many of my fellow cube-mates onto it, too. So each morning we come in, work, work, work, and then someone laughs... signalling to check out Cake Wrecks! The post is in! Who'da thunk there were this many wrecky cakes? Many more years, Jen... MANY!

Long live the Princess Bride! So much fun to see it again this weekend! I thought your references were great and then I read everyone else's. LMOA with tears streaming down my face! Thanks for the laughs as those cakes were truly "inconthevable."

Ah! So, uh, I guess the link that I posted is to a site that tries to put malware on to your computer. Very sorry for that! Why people would use a site called bonbonchocolates for evil is beyond me, but...

The hot dog surfing on poo cake... I know what cake that is. It is the Cake of Refuse. So bow down to it if you want, bow to it! Bow to the Cake of Slime, the Cake of Filth, the Cake of Putrescence. BOO!! BOO!! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! BOO!! BOO!! BOO!!

Oh, this is great! I love this blog that much more now. Cakes (however wrecky they may be) and Princess Bride quotes, doesn't get much better than that, LOL. On that last one, I'm seeing 'sheets' too, but yeah, how the wreckerator got that idea is INCONCEIVABLE! 'Have fun stormin' da castle!'

The only redeeming thing I see with that last one is it looks to be yummy chocolate. Otherwise, a sheet cake? Perhaps if they dropped a sheet cake and then fondanted the thing to cover the cracks. Or a roll in the sheet cake...but doesn't that come after the wedding?

Love the blog, love the Princess Bride...only genius would mix the two! Congrats on a year and your book. I suppose all that's left to say is: Jen are there more wrecks ahead? If there aren't we'll all be dead :-)

Inigo: Are you the Miracle Max who decorated cakes for the king all those years?Miracle Max: The King's stinking son fired me, and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?

Me: Such anger can only be cured by a slice of cheesecake with extra poo. :)

"WHAT?!", exclaimed my husband upon gazing at the cyclops clover. Yeh. It boggles the mind.The barbie doll cake looks like she was supposed to be one of those that stand up inside a dress, but she fell. OOPS!Poo-surfing hot dogs. I think it sounds like a good name for a band.WV: misidi. Put these cakes out of their misidi.

OMG! I just found you and I am laughing hysterically!! This is such a great blog! I am a very good baker of cakes and this is almost like sugary/carbo porn! :) Thanks for making my day. Can't wait for another mishap helping to be served.

"She doesn't eat the cake at this time.""What?""The cake doesn't get her. I'm explaining to to because you look nervous.""I wasn't nervous. Maybe I was a little bit 'concerned' but that's not the same thing."

Best I could do. Oh, I notice the last one is covered by sheets of chocolate.

The Princess Bride is one of my absolute favorites, so I was thrilled when I saw the title! I was a little worried that no one else would catch all the references, but just glancing at the comments, I was pleasantly surprised! I love that there are so many other PB fans!!!

"Quite a wreck, isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject, so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the cake makes you feel."

OK, I totally cheated and looked this up because I couldn't remember exactly how he put it.

OMG. The caramel poo cake had me CRACKING UP for like 3 whole minutes. I have followed this blog for a long time but have never commented. That cake and the words you used to describe it had me in fits of laughter. A hot dog riding a poo wave!!!! HAHAHA! :-) Thanks for brightening my day.

I'd like to pretend that they made one too many cakes that day. It was a slow day - let's say Thursday. Usually, they only sell x number of cakes, but someone got happy with the batter and they ended up with x+y. Instead of tossing them out they said, "F--- it; let dust off the those old plastic figurines no one wants, put a lot of frosting on 'em and watch what happens."

I'd like to believe in my strange little world that the frosting on the second cake is actually blueberry-, strawberry-, chocolate-, and banana-favored. Why? Who cares? It's just Thursday.

I like the hamburger and hot dog cheesecake. Those decorations look like the little Japanese gummies you can buy in Japanese import stores. The decorator was just trying to be cheeky (like how I tell my boyfriend that I want a "Sorry About The Herpes" Disney cake with decapitated clown heads at the edges as our wedding cake) - is a weird sense of humor not allowed?

I also love the funky chocolate coating on the sheet cake - very abstract - though the logo is just odd.

I knew I loved this blog before... but anything that quotes the BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME that many times in only 1 entry... *sigh* ... Jen ... if I were a man (and we were both unmarried) I would propose right now! ;)

Are you kidding??? I mean in the cake world miniature food items riding on giant blobs of..... caramel is like the new naked babies riding on carrots, I mean seriously you gotta keep up with the latest trends....

W.V. Spitio... I think it must be the name of the overly artistic baker who made that last cake....[fake french accent] "Hmmf, they hire me for my creative greatness and all they want is a little 'sheet cake.' I will show them what a great Spitio cake really looks like!"

I loved the Princess Bride references in the post, and the ones in the comments are making me laugh even harder. "I clearly cannot eat the cake in front of me." being my favorite.I think I'm going to have to watch PB soon.

wv= repasThank you for the offer, but I think I'll repas on these cakes.

I had to squint a little and travel back many years to my childhood, but the "psychadelic clover", I think it supposed to be a Frodis from an episode of "The Monkees" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUwhVRQPL0 )

So my mother in law is actually the one that ordered the sheet cake... she was so flabbergasted when she saw that cake she was speechless... I didn't find out until later that is NOT what she intended. And the reason it has the VJGC logo is because my husband and I met as working as counselors there, it's a great place. But yes, the cake is a running joke in our family...

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